Based on the official ubuntu 14.04, this box is intended for use Meteor in development, but more importantly, as a testing ground for building Meteor 1.3.4.4 applications via the 'build' command.

The Node JS version installed (0.10.46) matches the Meteor 1.3.44 Internal Node JS version. so after building, your application will hopefully not have any version incompatibilities with npm packages that worked fine while you were using them Meteor, and didn't work when you built your application into a Node JS app.